Chitkara Placements are coming ☠️ Let’s figure out what’s actually worth studying

Placements are ~3 months away ☠️

I’m a Software Engineer and recent passout. I’ve already helped students prepare and get placed, and honestly, the biggest problem I see is not knowing what to actually study.

DSA? DBMS? Projects? AI? System design?

How much? For which role? What are companies actually asking right now?

So I want to start a completely free, community-based discussion here.

No course. No paid mentorship. No sales pitch. No scripted sessions.

Just raw discussions around:
What you actually need to study/revise
What you can skip
Current OA & interview patterns
What companies are asking for different roles
How much AI you really need to know
What’s changing in the tech industry
Problems you’re facing while preparing

The goal is simple:
Stop studying everything. Start studying what actually matters.
If you’re preparing for placements, drop your target role + what you’re currently studying + where you’re stuck.
Let’s figure it out together. 🤝☠️

Maybe we can have some live sessions over extra topics

We have already covered live topics of system design and designing databases… And maybe you can help out among yourselves in this tough times 🙌

Wanted to know the timings as my availability is after 4 PM
Join the discord server - https://discord.gg/XMwAG68Ks

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u/Dizzy_Poetry_828 — 8 days ago
▲ 6 r/RoastMyIdea+2 crossposts

I’m building GhostNote 👻 — an open-source, local-first AI meeting assistant. Looking for contributors.

I built GhostNote because I wanted a meeting assistant where your meeting data doesn’t have to leave your machine.

It uses local Whisper + Ollama to:
🎙️ Transcribe meetings
🧠 Extract decisions & action items
📝 Generate structured summaries
🔒 Keep processing local
⚡ Work in real time

The desktop app is built with Rust + Tauri + React/TypeScript, and there’s still a lot to improve.

I’m especially looking for contributors interested in:
Rust/Tauri • Audio & Whisper • Local LLMs/Ollama • React/TypeScript • RAG • macOS/Windows/Linux • Integrations • Testing

I’d love to turn this from a solo project into something the community can actually shape.

GitHub: https://github.com/v0nser/ghostnote

I also wrote about how I built it, including some of the engineering problems I ran into:

Medium: https://medium.com/@raghuvanshivaibhav01/operation-ghostnote-how-i-built-an-ai-that-makes-you-look-like-a-genius-in-meetings-18fba3709db0

If this sounds interesting, star the repo, open an issue, or comment with what you’d like to contribute. 👻

u/Dizzy_Poetry_828 — 1 month ago